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Auction: 12004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 6

The C.V.O., ´Korean War´ O.B.E. Group of Eleven to Commander S.R. Le H. Lombard-Hobson, Royal Navy
a) The Royal Victorian Order, Commander´s (C.V.O.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially numbered ´1485´, with full and miniature width neck ribands, in Collingwood, London, case of issue
b) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Officer´s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt
c) Naval General Service 1915-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1936-39, clasp a tailor´s copy, naming neatly erased
d) 1939-1945 Star
e) Atlantic Star
f) Africa Star, with North Africa 1942-43 Bar
g) Italy Star
h) War Medal, M.I.D. Oak Leaf
i) Korea 1950-53, 1st ´Britt: Omn:´ type (Cdr. S.R. Le H. Lombard-Hobson. O.B.E. R.N.), rank and initials officially corrected
j) United Nations Medal for Korea
k) Italy, Republic, Order of Merit, Commander´s neck Badge, 74mm including tower suspension x 55mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband and lapel rosette, in Cravanzola, Rome, case of issue, generally nearly extremely fine, the breast awards mounted court style as worn, with the recipient´s related miniature awards, all housed in a Gieves, London, fitted case, the lid embossed ´S. L-H.´, with the following related items:
- The recipient´s riband bar and Naval cloth badge
- Portrait Photograph of Her Majesty the Queen, black and white, 230mm x 170mm, the mount signed ´Elizabeth R.´ and dated ´1961´, Her Majesty in evening dress wearing the sash, Badge, and Star of the Order of the Garter, and the Royal Family Orders of George V and George VI, in Plante, London, leather glazed frame
- Illuminated Scroll, granting John William Edmund Lombard the arms of Hobson, dated 29.7.1924, with two attached seals, in box of issue (lot)

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